Dec 6, 2011

W3C validation for blogger XHTML templates

Ritesh Warke

Ritesh Warke

Hi guys, today we will validate your blogger XHTML template.
By validating your blogger template you can minimize your site loading time and increase google bots crawling rate to great extent therefore can do better in SERP's to increase your blog traffic.

However Completely removing validation errors from a blogger template is not possible because some server side scripts are out of reach of us that can be only controlled by blogger team. Such as a blogger navbar creates Invalid XHTML errors but it is a server side program so it cant be controlled by us, when we load webpage the navebar code is automatically inserted in ur sites XHTML code,this can not be fixed by just hiding your navbar.

So we will atleast try to Minimixze Blogger XHTML Template's code to validate it for W3C ('World Wide Web Consortium').

Check Out your blogger XHTML Template Errors:

Before proceeding towards tutorial first first of all let’s check out the number of errors and warnings your blog encounters.

Now Got the count of errors! Don't worry about errors and warning just follow the tutorial given bellow and you will see the difference yourself.(Make sure you take backup of your blogger template before applying every step)

When you visit your blog with signed in to your blogger account you get facility to edit any post or any widget at the spot by clicking the quickedit icon at the right bottom of widget.
It looks helpful but actually it is the biggest evil that comes accross blogger XHTML template validation.

Not using hirarchycal view of Archive widget will also help you to minimize your invalid XHTML blogger template errors.

Step5: Dont allow Hyperlinks in comments

If possible dont allow hyperlinks in comments, Using href tags in comments produces invalid XHTML results.
So say no to clickable links in comments.

Now check your blog for validation again:
Again go Validation Service and see how many errors and warnings you reduced. :)

Overall conclusion:

A blogger template XHTML by default produces invalid results which affects your sites crawl rate and also loading time. By fixing /minimizing invalid XHTML errors you can do better in SERP's to have a nice flow of search engine's traffic to your blog.

If you have more tips and suggesions over Fixing/Mnimizing blogger XHTML template validation bugs then feel free to share with us.

Article by : Ritesh Warke

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"Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure that all XML elements are closed properly. XML error message: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x3c) was found in the public identifier.

dear 1 problem with ur code templete not saveed "Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure that all XML elements are closed properly. XML error message: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x3c) was found in the public identifier."